Joséphine Jobert
Joséphine Jobert is a French actress and singer. She is best known to English-language audiences for playing Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the BBC One series Death in Paradise.
Early life and education
Jobert was born in Paris to Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis, a photographer, musician, writer, actress, and director, and Charles Jobert, a camera operator and director of photography. Her father is from a Sephardic Jewish and Pied-Noir family from Algeria, and her mother's ancestry is Martiniquaise, Spanish and Chinese. Jobert comes from a family of performing artists, including her paternal aunt Marlène Jobert and cousins Eva Green and Elsa Lunghini.In 1997, aged 12, Jobert moved with her parents to Montreal, Canada, for eight years, where she studied singing and acting, and took her first steps into television. With her friends and her parents, she participated in the creation of songs, videos, a web series, and a television series on the internet. She attended drama workshops by Stéphane Belugou as well as Coda Music School.
Career
From 2008 to 2014, Jobert had steady work in various French television series. She took on her first English-language role as Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the BBC One series Death in Paradise at the beginning of its fourth season in 2015. She left the show for "personal and professional reasons" after episode six of the eighth season in 2019, but returned for the tenth season in 2021. She is also in the 11th season and made her final regular appearance on the fourth episode of that series. She reprised her role two years later for a guest stint in series 13; this would be her final overall appearance in the show.Since 2024, Jobert has appeared as Deputy Chief Geneviève “Arch” Archambault in the CBC Television series Saint-Pierre.
Filmography
Television
- 2007–2009: Our pension years: Amel Habib
- 2007–2011: Lightning: Alice Watson
- 2010: My friends, my loves, my shit...: Lou, a mechanic
- 2012: I was your age from Bruno Garcia: Yasmine
- 2013: Alice Nevers: The judge is a woman: Djamila
- 2013–2014: Under the sun of Saint-Tropez: Roxanne
- 2013–2014: Cut!: Victory Vila
- 2014–ongoing: Villa Karayib: Kannelle Benneteau Meadow
- 2015–2019, 2021–2022, 2024: Death in Paradise: Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell
- 2023: Meurtres dans le Cantal: Sarah Waro
- 2024: ConcordIA: Mathilde
- 2025: Saint-Pierre: Geneviève Archambault
Film
- 2012: Love Survey of Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis Jo
- 2013: Words of Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis : Esmeralda/Film-maker
Video
- 2003: Big Star Patrick Marty
- 2007: For the life, single from the album Our pension years
Albums
- 2007: Our pension years
- 2008: Our board 2 years
- 2009: Our pension 3 years